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Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere? | jeffrese: Join NextNY, sign up for the email list, start going to events and start networking. http://nextny.org/ |
Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere? | whalliburton: i've got a NYC startup that I can show-and-tell. whalliburton {at} gmail.com |
Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere? | wumi: so you decided against continuing grad school?why not put an email in your profile... |
Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere? | bkmrkr: Interested in another job as a program trader? |
What are some good iPhone app developer blogs or forums | tstegart: For the business side or the coding side? |
What are some important "failure" lessons learned while doing your startup? | ca98am79: I have learned that it isn't success that really brings happiness - it is the process of getting to success. And that same process sometimes leads to "failure." |
Books on meta-learning | gtani: http://search.oreilly.com/?q=mind+hacks&submit.x=0&s...i remember these 2 mind hacks from Oreilly being good, but i htink mine got borrowed forever. |
Books on meta-learning | icey: It's not a book, but understanding the methodology behind supermemo is a good place to start. |
Books on meta-learning | silentbicycle: There's probably considerable overlap with books on creativity and making your thinking more flexible. Roger von Oech's _A Whack on the Side of the Head_ and _ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!_ may be helpful.Also, look at some of the books about home schooling, targeted to both parents and the teenage... |
Books on meta-learning | mooneater: Related, see "How to Solve it": http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html |
Books on meta-learning | garymeeg: Kathy Sierra's blog is fantastic:http://headrush.typepad.com/Here are printout versions of her posts:http://enklo.com/passionate//Gary |
Books on meta-learning | Alex3917: I've heard that Thinking And Deciding is good, but I haven't read it personally. |
Books on meta-learning | aspirant: I've never heard of meta-learning, but about a year ago I stumbled onto a branch of philosophy called epistemology or the Theory of Knowledge. My studies there have been absolutely exhilarating and disturbing.Next time you see someone at the coffee machine, ask them them what is meant by knowledge, reason, be... |
Finding a Mentor | kynikos: Build relationships with mentors by networking like crazy and showing more senior people in your industry that you have passion for what you're doing, a drive to ask questions, and are placing value on their opinion. Ask a lot of questions and form a mentor relationship with those who are most happy to answer ... |
Books on meta-learning | Jaytee: I didn't fully understand meta-learning until I started reading neuroscience books. Find some introductory text book on neuroscience (Amazon). Then read a book that explains extensively on various forms of neural plasticity. Developmental neuroscience also provides crucial insights Once you understand the funda... |
Books on meta-learning | nazgulnarsil: overcomingbias.comi've spent hours clicking everything the blog posts link to.
these are your bibles:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biasesstudy those throughly and you will be better equipped than the vast majority of humanity.
Disclaimer: exposing th... |
Books on meta-learning | DavidSJ: Gödel Escher Bach |
Books on meta-learning | ryanmahoski: The Art of Memory by Frances Yates. Classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the printed page. |
Finding a Mentor | manvsmachine: Take this with a grain of salt, as I'm currently in the same situation as you? These are just a couple of strategies that I'm trying (YMMV).Option 1: If you're in college, look through the professors' web pages and look for ones who do research in areas that you are interested in. If you find one that you... |
What are some good iPhone app developer blogs or forums | tstegart: How to get in to the program? You go to Apple's website and sign up. Its a two step process, first you sign up, and then sign up again for the developer program. When they accept you, you pay $99 and can submit applications to the app store. No word on how long those are taking to get approved. And they have ... |
Finding a Mentor | ScottWhigham: Aside from the other good advice, one thing I've found is that if you are doing interesting things, interesting people hear about you and are interested in talking with you. So, while you're networking at the tech meeting/etc mentioned, be interesting. |
Anybody outsource their startup? | david927: I've done just that and it's worked spectacularly for me. If you have a good job, don't drop it for your startup -- outsource the components instead. |
Anybody outsource their startup? | gm: Of course, outsource if it makes sense. Don't drop the ball though, manage it. 80/20 rule still applies, take full advantage of it. |
Anybody outsource their startup? | ericb: I'm doing it now. It's a little like arbitrage. I hired someone on Rent a Coder to keep my project moving while I finish a consulting contract.The key is finding someone who's good. I have some tricks for that on Rent a Coder:1 - Spend some time building a private invite list of coders who have something similar... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | Anon84: Here are Warren Buffett's recommendations. I hear he knows a thing or two about investing... ;)http://www.businesspundit.com/10-investing-books-recommended... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | tstegart: For savings, I use FNBO. They have an online presence (FNBO Direct), where everything is done online. https://www.fnbodirect.com
The nice part is, they adjust your interest rate as it goes up and down. So when it goes up, you don't need to look around for another bank, they automatically raise it for you. Not... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | zacharye: As an aside, my etrade savings account yields just north of 5% interest. Might be worth looking into in the interim and even more so if you plan to trade yourself. Is etrade a safe bank? Well, I've had money there for quite a while and in this day and age what bank is safe? |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | jon_dahl: The first and best book on investing that you should read: A Random Walk Down Wall Street (http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039306...). This book has great investing advice; is funny, interesting, and well-written; and clearly explains what's going on behind different investment approache... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | dionidium: A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton MalkielIt starts with a brief history of market bubbles, moves to an explanation of the the most popular theories of stock forecasting (and why you probably can't use them to beat the market), explains and argues (quite convincingly) for the efficient market hypothesi... |
Anybody outsource their startup? | incredicorp: I have alway's done that- the 'not prone to misdirection' type's of tasks I always outsource.It worked so well I have started recommending my partner-in-outsourcing to other startups with incredible results...not only is it more convenient- it just makes good business sense.let me know if I can help anyone... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | byrneseyeview: The best book on investing that I've ever read is this one:http://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowe...It's a biography, but there are lots of anecdotes about specific analyses. Nobody can invest like Buffett, but just about everyone can benefit from reading about how he did it. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | noodle: the internet does the job just fine, imo. there are some good investing blogs that will give you good information for the beginner investor.if you want my 5 second pitch for what you should do, here it is:open up an online savings account with HSBC direct or ING direct, so you're getting 3%+.save up money so t... |
what language should I learn next? | davidw: How about Italian? In terms of computer stuff... C is always a good one. Erlang is something kind of "new" and different, but at the same time quite practical for certain kinds of applications. Java's not a bad language to know, but it's not that exciting. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | ltbarcly: Random walk down Wall Street, then the Graham books (look for things that are written by the people who taught Warren Buffet). |
what language should I learn next? | brlewis: BRL |
what language should I learn next? | Anon84: Hindi! Everything will eventually be outsourced to india, anyway.Seriously though... Python is probably the best option, followed closely by Java. |
What do founders of failed startups do next? | noodle: this is too situation-based to answer, really. they do what they want or need to do. maybe that's start another, or maybe its work at a more normal job. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | syalam: bogleheads guide to investing |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | maurycy: Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders by Jack D. Schwager |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | simplyauser: I have read many of the recommend books. Here are my two pence.Books on Wealth 1. "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
and find out exactly why someone becomes rich.
(if you like this one, at some point you may also
want to quickly scan through "Cashflow Quadrant
Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom"... |
What do founders of failed startups do next? | ph0rque: After I resigned from my startup early last summer, I spent about two weeks moping in the evenings/on weekends (I had a dayjob by then), then came up with another idea that I started to work on. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | vaksel: Don't forget to pick up a book on how to read financial statements, once you figure that out you'll actually be investing, instead of playing the lottery based on hype. |
Anybody outsource their startup? | vaksel: I think the #1 rule for outsourcing is making sure that you can sue the pants off the person if they screw you. This means you need to stick to programmers in U.S.And yes you will pay more, but you'll be surprised how much less it is compared to what you expected. And yes rentacoder is a good site, because you ... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | ideas101: you must read "The Dollar Crisis" before you invest in anything - trust me this will help for the rest of your life !!! |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | ojbyrne: I really enjoyed Henry Blodgett's "The Wall Street Self-defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing" (http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Self-defense-Manual-Intell...).It's basically a diatribe against active investing. Buy index funds and hold them. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | jobeirne: Jonathan Hoenig's Greed is Good is pretty excellent. http://www.capitalistpig.com/merchandise.html |
what language should I learn next? | silentbicycle: OCaml. If you've been working with languages dynamically typed at runtime, using something statically typed at compile time will be very informative. Unlike most other statically typed languages, OCaml's type inference turns the type system from a thing that needs to be constantly appeased to a free real... |
what language should I learn next? | pmjordan: I'm enjoying Clojure - in terms of web frameworks there's Webjure and Enclojure, for example. The latter seems more Rails-ish whereas the former is more Javaesque, but it's still pretty early days. I prefer Clojure to Common Lisp as it doesn't have a lot of the cruft you'll find in CL, it has some cool concur... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | tjr: I really like Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth's "Yes You Can Get a Financial Life":http://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Can-Financial-Life/dp/14019112...Very conservative approach to long-term investing, but also helps prepare you for other common life expenses, such as housing and children. A great broad, bottom-line, why-this... |
What do founders of failed startups do next? | jimgagnon: I was one of the founders of Abacus Concepts, a pre-internet Macintosh startup. For thirteen years we were in start-up mode as all of our competitors were much larger than us. After I sold, I was truly burnt out and took some time to see the world and start a family. The money was holding out good until the ... |
what language should I learn next? | gaius: I am in the process of learning OCaml and Haskell. If I can use them in production, great. If not, I'll still learn things I can apply to my Python work. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | gcv: For the shortest introduction to sensible, index-based investing, read The Coffeehouse Investor (Bill Schultheis). It shouldn't take more than an hour or two to go through, and it contains all the basics. Then, if you're interested in a more in-depth analysis of the same thing, read A Random Walk Down Wall Street ... |
What do founders of failed startups do next? | pg: In the case of YC startups, a lot of them get picked up by other YC startups. This was one of many unanticipated advantages of funding startups on a large scale. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | eposts: Here is a good list:
http://www.bogleheads.org/readbooks.htmGeneral Investing# The Four Pillars of Investing - by William ("Bill") Bernstein.# Wise Investing Made Simple or The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need - by Larry Swedroe# The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing - by Taylor Larimor... |
Anybody outsource their startup? | jeffrese: oDesk works well for this and they have great PM tools baked in. Stay away from firms, only hire freelancers, be quick to fire and quick to giving raises to good developers. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | breck: Invest all of it in my startup. :)Now for real advice:First, consider getting an online savings account from ING Direct(3%), or putting your money into PayPal(2.5%)...Better than less than 1%.Second, jon_dahl's advice is spot on. The 2 tricks are to diversify and to dollar cost average(invest your money each mon... |
what language should I learn next? | dominik: I'd recommend Python, so that you can play with Djgano. |
what language should I learn next? | ricree: Perhaps you are asking the wrong question here. Instead of learning a new programming language for web apps, maybe you ought to try programming a type of application that is new for you. I think that taking a go at something like a client-server, embedded, mobile, or desktop application would help broaden you... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | amarcus: i don't use feeds. I like visiting actual sites. In firefox, i have a bookmarks folder called "daily read" and i open its contents in tabs. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | samt: Investments by Bodie, Kane and Marcus (BKM) is one classic that still has value in this climate. |
what language should I learn next? | richcollins: If you want to stay on the OO path, I would suggest Smalltalk (Squeak), or the simple but powerful Io programming language (http://iolanguage.com/).C is also an important language to learn if you don't know it already. You could use it to implement a simple database for a very specific task (http://cr.yp.... |
what language should I learn next? | breck: French. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | dominik: I ask because I currently have about 100 feeds in Google Reader; most of them update fairly infrequently. I try to only subscribe to feeds that have full text, since I dislike excerpts because I have to open a new tab. That said, I try to read all my feeds, but often fall behind (260 unread at the moment). ... |
what language should I learn next? | manny: No Perl fans here?Shame. :(I, then, humbly suggest Perl. You might like it, and with your Ruby background it shouldn't be hard to pick up. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | drios: Fooled by Randomness is a great book to keep things in perspective. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | ajkirwin: Generally? I don't. Until I can get such information via feeds, presented nicely and in an aggregatable way, I will just visit individual sites. |
what language should I learn next? | kenver: I'm not sure you really need to "learn" another language, if you can program in one you can probably get by in another quite easily given a bit of practice and some documentation.I think it would probably be worth learning new algorithms or trying to tackle problems which are totally out of your area of experti... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | gaika: There are ~300 feeds where I skim all the posts and ~20 that are a must read in a separate bucket on google reader. Feeds are so critical to what I do that I have to keep up with them even after a vacation. Which means ~1000 messages in the "inbox" from time to time. There are ~100 other feeds that I wish I had ... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | cypress-hill: try investing with imaginary money. the only way to learn about the market is to be in it, even with imaginary investments. what was written about the market in the past is based on the market of the past. its not all bad or outdated, but a some of it is. for example, buy-and-hold only makes sense in a se... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | vasudeva: I use irssi (CLI Linux IRC client) for a ton of things -- it's basically my dashboard -- and have eventually hit upon the strategy of running an rbot (a Ruby infobot-alike by linuxbrit) and using its RSS plugin to monitor about 60 feeds in a private channel. It sits in a separate irssi window along with IRC, ... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | brandonkm: Currently I use rojo, although I heard they are undergoing a transformation (new name, etc.). I think theres a lot of room for improvement in the RSS reader space, but they currently offer the best type of reader from what i've seen out there. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | nostrademons: #1 for me would be The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham. Also read all of Warren Buffett's Letters from the Chairman - they're all up on the Berkshire Hathaway website. Peter Lynch's books are good too.I see a lot of people here recommending A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which is a good book, ... |
what language should I learn next? | volida: "who has a month to spare to learn another language?" |
what language should I learn next? | ccwu: How about Chinese? Probably more useful.But seriously, python is well regarded and with G App Engine as a possible hosting platform using it, you can also learn more about design for hosted infrastructure apps. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | ptm: I track around 30 feeds (news / high frequency) on Firefox Live Bookmarks on a daily basis.I also track around 800 feeds (opinion / lower frequency) on Netvibes on a weekly / biweekly basis. |
what language should I learn next? | wilkes: Languages every programmer should at least have some understanding of:Lisp - because it's lisp, duh
Smalltalk - to actually understand OO
Prolog - it requires a completely different thought process, for better or worse
Haskell - for understanding useful type systems and functional programming
C - because it as ... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | cypress-hill: left to right |
what language should I learn next? | cypress-hill: haskell without a doubthaskell is on the edge of almost every interesting trend in programming tools.parallelism? check
STM? check
closures? haskell is closures
functional programming? better than any other lang
continuation style? check
type inference? check
good library support? check (kinda)
repl? chec... |
what language should I learn next? | wastedbrains: I played around with Scala and thought it was really interesting. |
what language should I learn next? | jksmith: IO (iolanguage.com) is very cool. The Qi layer over CL (lambdassociates.org) is also worth looking at. q/kdb+ (kx.com) is very interesting, but needs a more complete toolset for a commercial product.What if your language was nothing but macros? Factor (factorcode.org) is a fascinating example of this, and I th... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | utefan001: Like many of you, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the best investing approach is. My advice is to not spend any money on investing books. I am not saying not to read them, just don't spend ANY money on them.I think the future of investing is here, and it is covestor.com. This site hel... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | johns: I use Bloglines because their mobile versions (simple mobile version and iPhone version) are superior to Google Readers. I have 114 feeds divided up into folders by interest area. Some folders like "Development", "Design" and "Competitors" are higher priority reads. I have a few top-level feeds that aren't in fo... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | keven: Highly recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.also http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | josephl: Check out this site to learn a few tips on technical analysis: http://www.stockcaster.net/education |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | brk: Here's my thought on the matter... The "Killer feature" here is the lack of killer features. There are no buddy lists, stupid picture icons, special groups, or karma-whoring incentives. It's just a simple place to exchange news that is generally relevant to a hacker community.The lack of needless bells and whist... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | Readmore: The only hope is our elitist comment trolls. Also the fact that HN has far fewer users makes it much easier to deal with the problem. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com+reddit.com+news.yc... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | anirbas: I use Opera's feed reader at present, but mainly because I read some cookie-protected feeds and an in-browser one seems like the best solution. I keep a pretty tight leash on the feeds I subscribe to (twelve or so at the moment), and delete any I ignore for several days. |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | noodle: the quick and dirty answer is the userbase. it doesn't, at least right now, turn into digg/reddit/slashdot because the people who want to see a digg/reddit/slashdot are already at digg/reddit/slashdot.the community here likes how things are and has a vested interest in keeping HN like it is. so thats what the... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | davidw: PG has said he won't let it, and will do what it takes to keep it high quality. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | pjackson: I use Apple Mail. It shows individual feeds as if they were a mailbox, all grouped under and RSS container. Unfortunately, this keeps me addicted to HN throughout the day rather than just once or twice a day. |
what language should I learn next? | vikram: It's probably not worth learning another language for a web development project. You'll spend most of the time learning the syntax and the framework. Nothing which will expand your mind.Try a functional language like Haskell, Erlang or ML.
But you really need a problem to work on. A database-backed web app can... |
what language should I learn next? | schtog: Concurrency and parallelism is hot these days and functional languages are superior there.
Learning a different type of language will widen your horizons and once you know one functional and one OO-language then it is quite easy to learn other languages after that.My suggestions are Clojure and Erlang. Both are... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | wallflower: By not having a RSS reader, I can lie to myself and say that I'm not that addicted to technology news/blogs. By not having sites bookmarked, it makes me put a little effort into visiting sites like MacRumors, techmeme, etc. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | bprater: I'm embarrassed to say that not once, but several times, I've collect loads of feeds and then rarely made good on reading them all.The stuff I was interested in would change over time, so I was left with feeds I wasn't so interested in anymore. I tried different feedreaders. And I would always feel overwhelmed... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | gaika: PG http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196547 :"1. The kind of stories that are most popular on reddit and digg (pictures and politics) are banned here.2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves.3. The custom of the sit... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | swombat: Strange, this thread is full of luddites who don't use RSS!Anyway, I use Google Reader. I tend to read everything I subscribe to. If I don't read it, I unsubscribe to it after I've ignored it long enough. I have maybe 30-40 subscriptions, all to sites that post infrequently, so I rarely have more than a handfu... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | comatose_kid: Top to bottom, left to right.Seriously, I'm subscribed to about 40 feeds, but I usually don't even start my feed browser because it's a time sink.The S/N ratio with most blogs isn't very high, but I subscribe just to get that occasional important nugget of information/insight.But I am coming to the realiz... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | arthurk: I'm using Google Reader for mostly personal blogs but visit sites like HN directly since they tend to clutter my whole feed reader. I had subscribed to the HN feed for a long time but since the feed displays every blog post that hits the frontpage there were a lot of uninteresting entries.I would re-subscribe ... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | makecheck: At home, I use my web browser (OmniWeb) to put menus of feed items into my toolbar. This is good because I tend to be in my browser when viewing other news sites.Yet at work, I use my E-mail (Thunderbird), perhaps because the RSS feeds tend to be blogs, newsgroups or other similar E-mail-like items.In other... |
How much traffic from a techcrunch story? | tstegart: No, but I can tell you how much traffic a Hacker News post will get you. |
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